Gallatin National Forest

The Gallatin Forest offers 24 administrative cabins to the public for recreational use. Most of the cabins were built in the 1920s and 1930s to provide field quarters for forest rangers and crews who worked trails, fire, range, and forestry projects. These cabins are an important part of Forest Service history; but now they have a new role—serving the public.

The cabins are equipped with wood stoves, tables and chairs, cots or bunkbeds, an axe (or splitting maul), shovel, bucket, and cleaning gear. Most have pots and pans. In many cases, the cabins have no potable water! Some may have nearby streams, but water must be treated for drinking. Permits for cabin use are issued on a first-come, first-served basis to anyone 18 years or older. Individual use will generally be limited to five consecutive nights.